(AKA Keshava dasa)

nama om visnu-padaya radhikayai priyatmane sri-srimad-bhaktivedanta- narayana iti namine

nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale srimate bhakti-vedanta svamin iti namine

Although in my younger days I had a strong interest in worldly science and philosophy, my attention turned towards matters of the soul in 1999. After several years of intense reading, study, and searching, in 2004 I had the great fortune of taking initiation from a modern-day saint, Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja (1921-2010), who traveled around the world starting in 1996 to teach the spiritual science of pure Bhakti-Yoga, or the cultivation of an intimate, personal relationship between the individual soul and God, as propounded by the vast Vedic wisdom and scriptures. This devotional tradition, also known as Gaudiya Vaishnavism, has been passed down from guru to disciple since the 1500's, inaugurated in India by the saint Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The International Pur